Rough stock definitions

[cadcam]

James that's what I thought.

[Zero]

Cimatron also has rough stock definition, pretty cool feature. Looks nice on the screen, couldn't tell ya how well it actually cut (you need to sacrifice a few virgins on the full moon at night in the woods on a specific altar you have to order from them that always seems to be on backorder to actually get a working post from these guys). They also have a pretty slick feature in rough pocket toolpaths that lets you take large stepdowns in a constant z fashion and do a parallel to get the large steps it leaves behind inbetween z levels, which changed my style of roughing in MC (sometimes) to include rough pockets and parallels in the roughing stage.

 

I have brought this subject up before....Hopefully like Peter said, this is something they're workin on over there at CNC. Not criticizing here...just brining up a few thoughts on roughing..

 

[ 03-03-2003, 12:48 PM: Message edited by: Zero ]

[chris m]

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Guess I won't bother everyone any more. just read whats here.

 

again...Sorry

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Bill, please, there is no need for you to apologize for soliciting information; that is why this forum is here.

 

Unfortunately I can be of no help to you with the problem / question that you have as we are not currently using Mastercam as you are.

 

There are, however, some good possible suggestions here. Please don't refrain from posting in the future; threads get hijacked from time to time or people get into arguments that tend to derail discussion of the original issue, but don't let that discourage you from asking your questions.

 

When the dust settles, hopefully you'll have some info that you need.

 

C

[Zero]

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There is a way .

Build your rough surfaces then do any job with surface milling them like surface->rough-parallel,mark it as posting off

then use surface ->rough->restmill from previous operation

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Hmmmm...good idea plsttav, I'll have to try that out. Thanks

 

[ 03-03-2003, 12:55 PM: Message edited by: Zero ]

[cadcam]

FUSION are you the UG programmer or the MC programmer.

 

And did you get Varify working yet?

Jeff feel free to contact me if you need some help.

I am sure you know there is a C-hook for your mastercam side of Varify.